Why do we sprinkle "realgar wine" on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May?
The Dragon Boat Festival has a long history in my country. During the long course of history, various cultures have been formed on the Dragon Boat Festival, and sprinkling realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival is one of them. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of dragon boat racing on the Dragon Boat Festival. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018 vary from place to place, and contain profound Chinese traditional folk culture.Why do we sprinkle "realgar wine" on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May?In Shui Village, there are only two things to do during the Dragon Boat Festival: one is to make and eat rice dumplings, and the other is to sprinkle realgar wine;(1) The second thing to do during the Dragon Boat Festival is to sprinkle realgar wine inside and outside the house. There are two theories about sprinkling realgar wine. One is that the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the time when snake monsters often appear. If you sprinkle realgar wine inside the house, upstairs and downstairs, and outside the house, the snake monster will not appear in these places. Another saying is that realgar wine can ward off evil and harm, and after sprinkling it, one can have peace for the whole year, so it is sprinkled every year. (2) Making zongzi requires a very complicated process. It is time-consuming and laborious for one family to do it alone, and it is not certain that they can complete it. Therefore, several families need to work together to complete it. There were no high-quality zong leaves in the Shui Village area, and they had to be picked from the mountains 20 miles away. Therefore, when the zong leaves grew into large and thick leaves, the women in the village would invite the villagers to pick them together. Tie up the picked zongzi leaves in stacks and hang them on the floor to let them dry naturally. When you are going to make zongzi, take them down and soak them in water to make them soft. Making rice dumplings is women's job, so they have to invite good people to make them together at a certain house before the Dragon Boat Festival. The invited people are usually brothers' families, "people in the house" or neighbors who live nearby. These people live together, so it is more convenient to get materials and tools. There are generally white rice dumplings, peanut dumplings, bacon dumplings, etc. After wrapping and steaming, people used to place a bunch of them on a table or cabinet under the "ancestors" to pay respect to them. Now these rituals have been omitted, and people from each family are called in to eat as soon as the dumplings come out of the pot. This reflects the degeneration of people's collective memory. People no longer remember the significance of making rice dumplings or what their ancestors said. They only know that they have to make and eat rice dumplings on this day. Anyone passing by the door can get a share. Of course, the elderly people in their eighties or nineties in the village, especially those who were previously “five-guarantee households”, will definitely send someone to deliver it. After the rice dumplings are out of the pot, one should be hung on the kitchen window and kept hanging like this all year round. Sometimes, a handful of ashes is wrapped in rice dumpling leaves to make a rice dumpling shape and hang it. |
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